Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!claris!drc
From: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Application not present
Message-ID: <4470@claris.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 14:16:34 GMT
References: <326@intelisc.UUCP> <347@scotty.UUCP>
Reply-To: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <347@scotty.UUCP> rich@scotty.UUCP writes:
>In article <326@intelisc.UUCP> you write:
>>trouble is MS Word (3.01).  When I try to open its documents (from the
>>finder), I get the "application busy or not available" box.  I put Word
>>
>>If you remember the solution or saved the previous string, please let me
>>know.   Thanks.
>
>I had this problem several months ago with Excel and MSWord.  I could find
>no reasonable explination for it.  The final solution was to get out
>my backup copy of MSWord and copy it to the hard disk again.  This worked!

It is also possible that you were being bitten by what has been referred to
as the "FullWrite Thesaurus" bug.  Both MSWord and FullWrite license the
Thesaurus from Microlytics (it's really Word Finder).  Microlytics supplies
the Thesaurus file with the bundle bit set; this was never a problem until
System 6.0 was released.  Now the Finder gets confused when searching the
DeskTop file since the BNDL reference for that creator doesn't match the APPL
list that it searches.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!